Stegman's Soccer Club
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| Full name | Stegman's Soccer Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Blues |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Stadium | Lincoln Community Field, Minneapolis |
| Capacity | 500 |
| Chairman | Dan Hoedeman |
| Manager | Daniel Warner |
| League | Minnesota Amateur Soccer League |
| 2016 | MASL Division 1, 1st; Minnesota Cup, 1st |
| Website |
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Stegman’s Soccer Club is an amateur soccer club based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is the largest and most successful adult amateur soccer club in the state.
The club fields five competitive amateur men’s teams across the two major summer leagues in Minneapolis-St Paul: Stegman's City, Stegman's Old Boys, and Stegman's Athletic in the Minnesota Amateur Soccer League (MASL), Stegman's United and Stegman's Blues in the Minnesota Recreational Soccer League (MRSL), and various small-sided teams in various other leagues throughout the year.
Additionally, the club is behind the launch of Minneapolis City SC, which began play in the Premier League of America in 2016.
In August 2015, Stegman's Old Boys FC and FC Internationals merged to become Stegman’s Soccer Club.
Stegman's Old Boys FC was founded in 2010 by Dan Hoedeman, Jon Bisswurm and Nick Sindt, quickly expanding to multiple teams competing across the local amateur leagues and divisions. Named for Tom Stegman, the youth coach of the Dayton, Ohio team Centerville Blitz that Hoedeman and Bisswurm played on, Stegman's Old Boys' mascot is a rich, luxuriant mustache.
FC Internationals was founded in 1977 and quickly established itself as a powerhouse in Minnesota amateur soccer. Under the management of Franklin Tawah, the Internationals won 13 MASL Division 1 titles, including three in a row from 2003 - 2005, with the 2003 side not dropping a single point on the way to the title, and 8 Minnesota Cups. Keith Kiecker took over manager duties from Tawah and led the team to second in Division 1 and the finals of the Minnesota Cup.
In 2016, with FC Internationals re-named Stegman's City, the side did the double, claiming the Division 1 title (for the first time since 2005) and the Minnesota Cup for the first trophies of the new era. As a club, Stegman's almost swept the MASL cups in 2016, but Stegman's Old Boys fell to Haaka FC in the Wilson Cup final. It was their second Wilson Cup final defeat in three years.
The club has a barnstorming reputation, regularly traveling out-of-state to take on other amateur clubs. Beginning in 2012, when the Old Boys lost a close battle with Bavarian SC Majors 1-0 in Milwaukee and continuing to 2015 when the Blues competed in a home-and-home with FC Fargo, losing the match in Fargo 2-1 on the last kick of the game.
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